Agonius

Enagonios ( ancient Greek Ἐναγώνιος ) is an epiclesis of several Greek deities with which they were worshiped as gods of the palaestra and the agone. Deities that were called for help in the success of Agonen, also contributed to the epiclesis Agonios ( Ἀγώνιος ). In particular carrier Hermes was this nickname.

In Greek literature, almost entirely, Hermes is as a carrier of epicleses. He is called in the Orphic hymns in the choir poets Pindar, Simonides and Philoxenos of Kythira, the dramatists Aeschylus and Aristophanes, and the late antique epic poet Nonnus as Enagonios. As Agonios he appears in Pindar. A cult of Hermes Enagonios is an inscription in Athens and Eleusis, is on Lesvos and in Pisidia, Hermes Agonios appears on an inscription from Sparta. Literary is only a by Pausanias of traditional cult of Hermes in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia Enagonios known, which lists the Olympic altars chronological order carried out in the course of sacrifices. On the altar of Hermes Enagonios monthly victims were (presumably Rhea ) offered upon the altar of the mother of the gods and before the altar of Cairo.

Zeus as Agonios is only occupied in Pindar, as Enagonios appear in inscriptions in Erythrai Apollo, Dionysus in Magnesia and Aphrodite in Athens. In Flavius ​​Philostratus the river god Achelous is also provided with the nickname.